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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference v. State of Georgia

1:21-cv-05338 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This is a case about redistricting in Georgia.   On December 30, 2021, the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP (NAACP), Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda (GCPA), and Galeo Latino Community Development Fund, Inc (GALEO) (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.  Plaintiffs sued the State of Georgia, the Governor of the State of Georgia, and the Secretary of State of Georgia (collectively, “Defendants”) for …

Administrative Stay Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Reeves v. Nago

1:20-cv-00433 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 6, 2022

This case is about the constitutionality of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (“UOCAVA”), codified at 52 U.S.C. §§ 20301 to 20311, Hawaii’s Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act (“UMOVA”), codified at Hawaii Revised Statutes (“HRS”) §§ 15D-1 to -18, and Hawaii Administrative Rules (“HAR”) § 3-177-600. Taken together, these provisions allow U.S. Citizens who are former Hawaii residents to vote absentee in Hawaii’s federal elections if they reside in a foreign country, th…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

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POLICING
Ratlieff v. City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida

0:22-cv-61029 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 31, 2022

Closed Date: Dec. 23, 2024

In the aftermath of George Floyd's death in May 2020, nationwide protests erupted, including a significant demonstration in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 31, 2020. During the protest, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department (FLPD) attempted to disperse the crowd through use of tear gas and kinetic impact projectiles, otherwise known as rubber bullets. The plaintiff in this case, a participant in the May 2020 demonstration, alleged she was shot in the eye by a direct impound round, causing seve…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Trivette v. Tennessee Department of Correction

3:20-cv-00276 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: March 31, 2020

On March 31, 2020, a deaf man in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) and Disability Rights Tennessee (DRT), the state protection and advocacy entity, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs sued TDOC alleging violations of Title II of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act for failure to provide effective communication accommodations. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged inmates incarcerated at TDOC f…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Holt v. Payne

5:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: March 1, 2019

This case concerns allegations of failure to accommodate the religious practices of three Muslim people incarcerated by the Arkansas Department of Corrections (“ADC”) through policies on religious services and headdresses. Represented by CAIR Legal Defense Fund, Plaintiffs filed suit on March 1, 2019, against various named ADC employees in their official and individual capacities in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The complaint alleged violations of the First Amend…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights South Carolina v. Richland County

8:22-cv-01358 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: April 28, 2022

This case challenges conditions for pretrial detainees who have serious mental illness. This case was filed by Disability Rights South Carolina (DRSC) against Richland County, South Carolina, in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina on April 28, 2022. Filing on behalf of incarcerated individuals, DRSC alleged that the dangerous and inhumane pre-trial detention practices at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center violated Due Process, Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of…
POLICING
Asante-Chioke v. Dowdle

2:22-cv-04587 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 2022

This is a case about whether police officers used excessive force on a Black man experiencing a mental health crisis. The complaint alleged the following facts. On November 21, 2021, local and state police officers in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana responded to an alert that there was a 52-year-old Black man walking along a highway. The man appeared to be visibly distressed and was carrying in his hands what were later identified to be a gun and a knife. Upon arriving on the scene, the officers in…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Dehart v. Stevens-Henager College

1:05-cv-00118 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2005

Closed Date: March 28, 2008

This is a case about gender-based employment discrimination. This case was brought on September 22, 2005, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah by a former employee of Stevens-Henager College who alleged that she was paid a lower salary because of her gender, in violation of the Equal Pay Act ("EPA") and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin). In her complaint, the plaintiff also all…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Cancino Castellar v. Mayorkas

3:17-cv-00491 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: March 9, 2017

This case challenged the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) policy of detaining individuals without prompt presentation before a judge or prompt judicial review of probable cause. On May 9, 2017, the ACLU, on behalf of three immigrants detained at the Otay Detention Facility in Southern California, filed a class action lawsuit and a petition for writ of habeas corpus against the Secretary of DHS, the Director and an official of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Attorney Genera…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Batalla Vidal v. Nielsen

1:16-cv-04756 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2016

On August 25, 2016, a Mexican-born Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient living in New York filed this suit against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff, represented by Make the Road New York, the National Immigration Law Center, and the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, sued under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and 5 U.S.C. § 551, alleging that the revocation of his …